The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    173·
    10 months ago

    A 45tb tape would cost me a consumer $98, 45 of them would be 2pb and cost a whopping $4,320, it would surely be even cheaper for a bulk order at non-consumer costs. Hardly difficult or costly.

    it’s not just the cost of the tape (or whatever storage medium). it’s the cost of maintaining a secure off-site backup system. surely, you understand this, and how one is much more expensive than the other, especially at scale.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      2pb is nothing if we’re talking about a small datacenter backed up by the government. That said, Russia has a history of special kind of dumbassery

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        I think the main problem is that if, for example, they got 1 million allocated in the budget for maintaining the server farm, after corruption and shit only 250k would be actually available

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Would they maintain their own private off-site backup or would they be in a cluster with other government agencies or renting out from a commercial operation?

      The cost would be massive for you or I to utilise such services, less so for an agency, and it certainly isn’t difficult.

      I understand science is generally always under funded and there’s probably some oligarch skimming off of their budget, but I still don’t see this being the win they think it is in any form. I can only hope the climate data is not lost to all time.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Would they maintain their own private off-site backup or would they be in a cluster with other government agencies or renting out from a commercial operation?

        nobody said they would. I’m just pointing out that the difficulty of backing up 45TB+ of computational meteorological data is a greater consideration than a bulk purchase of magnetic tape.

        and, really, the carelessness with which you regard research and knowledge is pretty disgusting. don’t think you’re some hero for that. that’s hundreds of millions - possibly billions - of dollars of research and work let and hundreds of thousands of man-hours just gone. and, again, the data, the analysis, and the knowledge. just gone.

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          What are you on about?

          Like 95% of what you’ve just ranted about doesn’t even relate to my posts.